Contrary to popular belief, the Straw Hat pirates weren't nearly as fucking stupid as people outside of their crew tended to believe. Luffy, only acted like a dumbass to make himself seem less threatening than he actually was. Which was just brilliant, because nothing got anyone's attention faster than a lunatic believed to have less than half a brain cell between his ears walking up to a big bad and laying him out flat.
As it was, in the past two in a half years since Luffy had taken to the sea and began to build his crew- each of them could count on their hands and feet how many horrible battled that the teen had pulled them through on just his strength alone. And in that time, that had been totally undefeated.
Which was something totally unprecedented if one paid attention to anything that had to do with pirates.
Most new pirates and their crews would up dead within a month of taking to the sea. Either from arrogance, or being captured by the marines and killed, or simply murdered by bounty hunters out for their heads and so on.
But for some reason, despite the occasional going out looking for trouble- the Straw Hats had come to understand specific actions that Luffy pulled on them. Like when they managed to avoid any contact with marauding bloodthirsty pirates and marines.
If Nami was steering them one way- and if Luffy suddenly told them to change direction- it was usually because he knew something that the rest of them didn't.
This however wasn't one of those occasions and those who had heard the younger man's words were simply at a loss. This wasn't exactly one of the usual situations that they had grown used to dealing with.
Their captain- er former, they meant to say former- captain looked to each of them as if someone had just taken his most cherished item and placed it in one of Sanji's most heavy duty blenders, without ice cream, and simply destroyed it right in front of him. To be perfectly honest, none of them knew why he wasn't at least flipping out right about now and destroying something with his bare hands in a snit.
That was what they were used to.
Not this...heart wrenching mess of a man.
The moment that he had started chuckling, they had all felt a shiver of fear race down their spines. And the second that he had said those damned words about his heart hurting, Zorro, Sanji, Usopp, and Franky had all exchanged a...look.
Not the shit-he's-at-it-again look that was so well known amongst the crew, but simply a fuck me look that spoke volumes.
"Luffy..." The teen glanced for a moment at the person who had spoken, for once it wasn't Zorro or Sanji. It was Usopp. "Why do you think your heart hurts?"
Luffy's response was automatic. "Because she could have died and left me alone." The words alone held a wealth of meaning, though the teen didn't seem to catch it. Which was a little weird really. Luffy usually pretended to be dumb, it didn't mean that he actually was.
But when it came to certain matters- especially where girl's were concerned- he had an amazing lack of attention to certain little details that almost constantly got him into trouble with Nami. And Usopp didn't even want to think about the last time he'd pissed Robin off.
So maybe it wasn't quite so odd that he didn't catch the meaning of his own words? Maybe.
He and the other's however, seemed to catch onto what their former captain was attempting to convey to them, even if he wasn't aware of it. And while Zorro was a little bit peeved about it. The rest of them seemed to understand well enough.
Luffy liked Kay.
And not in the let-just-be-friends kind of way either. Though how he could have formed such a deep attachment to the young woman in such a short amount of time was an absolute mystery to the lot of them. The group of men were sometimes absolutely astounded by some of Luffy's 'idiocies'.
Sort of like now.
The whole small group was gaping at him like a bunch of fish.
This time the one to recover was Sanji as he said, "Luffy, when you think about Kay- what are you both doing?"
"Huh?" Luffy said curiously as Usopp went on to say.
"You know, when you think of her, are you giving her flowers or something just to make her smile?" Sanji tried again. This time Luffy seemed to understand what he was talking about and began to systematically blow each of their minds right out of the fucking water with each word that he uttered.
By the time he was finished, Sanji was unconscious in a small pool of his own blood. Zorro was still gaping and Usopp and Franky both had their hands clapped over their faces in an effort to stop their nosebleeds before they wound up like Sanji.
"W-What the hell kind of thoughts were those?!" Zorro finally roared in confusion. Mainly because pretty much everything that Luffy had said to them centered around really, really, really ecchi and hentai things!
Luffy didn't do hentai and ecchi stuff! Hell the teen didn't even know what that sort of stuff was. In fact, ecchi stuff wasn't even a part of Luffy's normal scope of behavior! To know that he'd have had to have sex with an actual girl before, and Zorro knew that if ever placed in such a situation...nature wouldn't exactly take it's course.
But now, after hearing such dirty things coming from Luffy's mouth, he wasn't so sure. Maybe Luffy tended to let people underestimate him in the bedroom area too?
But why? Zorro wondered as Chopper finally rejoined them, wiping the blood off of his hands and took a quick look at Sanji and Usopp before turning to Zorro and saying in exasperation, "Why is it that when I come down to tell you stuff pertaining to Kay and her situation that I find that I have more patients? Did I do something to offend, or anger the sea gods or something?"
"Y-You said that you came to tell us stuff about Kay-" Luffy started when Chopper huffed and said,
"Yeah. Her situation is tentative at best. She somehow popped a couple of stitches in her flight for the life boat. And a few others were torn. So I had to stuff her insides back in and sew her back up pretty good. But she won't be getting up for at least a two or three weeks or so. For now though, she's in so much pain that I'm going to have to keep her drugged for a few days just to see if it'll help her any. If she's still in too much pain after waking up a few days from now, I'll have to keep her drugged for a good bit to allow her to heal as much as possible."
Luffy and the others- with the exception of Sanji all seemed to absorb the information. When Luffy suddenly asked, "Chopper? W-Will Kay be able to have children again?"
Chopper looked at Luffy, his stare was oddly unsettling to the grey eyed teen as he let out a small exhaled breath before saying, "She should be able to if she heals up properly. While some of her injuries from fighting the marines are pretty bad, some of her reproductive organs are are bruised so badly that it will take months after the outside heals up for them to fully heal themselves. And even once she's healed up- they may still pain her quite a bit. She'll need some strong pain killers and numbing drugs to take for when the pain becomes too much for her. Aside from that- she should be able to have children again."
Luffy felt his lips curve up in a slight smile as he quickly jumped up and thanked his friend and then ran off somewhere. Leaving the others to their own thoughts for the moment.
